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Our Green New Deal Slate Saw Huge Victories!
Election Night is over, and Joe Biden will be our next president. But Democrats didn’t just win at the presidential level — candidates from our Green New Deal Slate notched big progressive victories in local elections as well! Here are a few examples:

• Harold Pope won in New Mexico’s 23rd state senate district, securing a more progressive legislature where he’ll take on the oil industry.

• Climate activist Yassamin Ansari finished first place in her race for the Phoenix City Council. She will advance to a March 2021 runoff.

• In Minnesota’s 56th senate district, Lindsey Port defeated Republican incumbent Dan Hall.

• Jovanka Beckles, who ran on creating a Green New Deal for public transit in the Bay Area, has been elected to Ward 1 of the AC Transit Board.

Thank you to everyone who gave to the Green New Deal Slate to get these badass environmental leaders elected.


Memo: Voters Across the Political Spectrum Oppose Trump’s Immigration Policies
From the beginning of his campaign for president in 2015, President Donald Trump has made immigration one of the centerpieces of his platform. But his hardline stances hurt him on Election Night — in a new analysis, we show that Americans strongly prefer President-elect Biden’s immigration platform to Trump’s.

In a late October survey, we presented voters with the positions of Trump and Biden on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA), which gives undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children protection from deportation. This group is occasionally referred to as DREAMERs. Even with this partisan framing, 50 percent of voters preferred Biden’s plan, while 40 percent preferred Trump’s.



We found the same pattern on the issue of creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants more generally. Fifty-two percent of Americans preferred Biden’s proposal to make it easier for undocumented immigrants to become citizens, while 40 percent supported Trump’s deportation-focused approach.




Data Bytes

• The Most Important Chart You’ll See Today: Biden won largely because of one simple fact: people trust Democrats a lot more than Republicans to handle the issues they care about. In a blog post last week, we show that voters prefer the Democratic Party by a double-digit margin on climate change, healthcare, the coronavirus pandemic, race relations, education, the minimum wage, voting rights, and immigration, among others.
  
  
   

• Voters Support Deficit Spending and Trust the Democratic Party More on Questions of Debt: When Biden takes office in January, he’ll have a choice: use deficit spending to stimulate the economy and save our climate, or cut spending in an attempt to balance the budget. In an analysis from last week, we show which framings lead voters to support deficit spending, and which don’t.
  
  The most successful framing was on economic growth. Fifty-four percent of voters agreed with increasing the debt in an effort to grow the economy and create jobs, while just 35 percent preferred to balance the books.
  
  
  
  See how the other framings fared by clicking here.

From The Blog
For Our Climate, the Senate Should Start Over on Transportation 
Joe Biden Continues to Lead Trump Heading Into Election Day
Voters Support Deficit Spending and Trust the Democratic Party More On Questions of the Debt
The Most Important Chart You’ll See Today
DFP Final Election Polling


Memos
Memo: The Case for Social Housing
Memo: Voters Across the Political Spectrum Oppose Trump’s Immigration Policies
Memo: Why Joe Biden Doesn’t Need to Win Pennsylvania


Media Hits
Trio of polls anticipate Colorado wins for Biden, Hickenlooper @Denver Post
Mr. Infrastructure: 11 NYC Projects a Biden Administration Should Fund @Curbed
Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign @Inside Climate News
Views of Deficit Depend on Framing: Analysis @The Fiscal Times
A winning issue for Election 2020: Polling shows strong support for bold climate policies @Red Green and Blue


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